temporary
The lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory.讲师暂时将她的主题放在一边，开始讲起了另一相关理论。
His famed calmness temporarily deserted him.
He's temporarily laid aside some quite interesting projects to write the script.他已经暂时放下一些非常有意思的项目去写剧本了。
We might have to employ someone temporarily as a stopgap measure until we can fill the post.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Temporary
be a nine days' wonderidiom
casual
casually
eddy
ephemeral
fugacious
fugitive
here
here today, gone tomorrowidiom
impermanence
non-established
placeholder
pro tem
provisional
provisionary
sticking plaster
transient
transiently
transitorily
transitory

Examples of temporarily

temporarily
The quotation marks surrounding "temporarily" are intended to convey that absolute systemic rigor is an illusory ideal.
A society can be defined as a pattern of mutual tolerance, surviving after the dynamism of mutual exclusion has been temporarily exhausted.
The meter was calibrated by temporarily affixing it to the flat floor of the tunnel ahead of the wavy wall.
Variables and objectives can be made temporarily redundant whilst others can be introduced during a largely explorative process.
Student 2, however, has a very different experience of this period of time at college, having temporarily suspended his individual lessons at this stage.
Opening seed storage containers to perform these critical functions temporarily eliminates all moisture barriers.
More concretely, they consider the possibility that consumers on contracts are temporarily excluded from receipts of contingent payoffs with a positive probability.
Sometimes, they are drastically slowed down, or (perhaps) even temporarily suspended.
If anything, it appears that the influx has at least temporarily suppressed residents' willingness to participate in commodity or labour markets.
Enteral nutrition can be used when an individual is temporarily, or permanently, unable to meet their nutritional requirements by the oral route themselves.
There is also value in setting aside, at least temporarily, the personal for the communal.
Furthermore, the eye closure response to nerve injury was temporarily blocked by an analgesic dose of systemic morphine (unpublished observations).
Option values are attached to the three possibilities: to stop emissions temporarily, to exit entirely and to re-start polluting (for an 'entry fee').
When the safe zone collapsed in the next phase of the war, they confronted this dilemma directly by temporarily withdrawing their protection of civilians.
The 12 long-term surviving babies (median 15.7 months) had no apparent developmental problems, with four babies temporarily oxygen dependent.
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